In message , arlen holder
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Thanks for that assessment of the "Codelabs" tutorials.

I'll skip them since, as you well know, we can waste a lot of time on
bad tutorials.

It's 6pm here and I have had no time today or yesterday to look at any
more of this, but I will plough on for now with these Codelabs
tutorials.

I think their aims are good, and they do seem to be methodical, but
there are typos that really shouldn't be there. For example the
instructions say, in the section where we are learning how to change
from a constraint to linear layout:

---------
Find the show_count TextView element, and change the following
attributes:

Original android:layout_width="0dp"
Change to android:layout_width="match_parent"

Original android:layout_width="0dp"
Change to android:layout_height="wrap_content"
--------

which contains an obvious and easy to suss out and avoid typo (one of
the widths should read height) but it does look as though there is a
lack of testing.
The obvious ones are OK to live with, but how is a lone beginner ever to
trust that there are no more obscure typos?

Off out again now - will try to resume for a short time later.
--
Bill

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